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Post by paulisper on Jun 10, 2024 13:55:41 GMT
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Post by carll on Jun 10, 2024 21:55:27 GMT
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Post by Haardrada on Jun 11, 2024 15:41:52 GMT
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Post by Haardrada on Jun 12, 2024 12:09:40 GMT
Now with the III/45 Pre-Feudal Scots/13e Free Cantons army done I am happy that by accident by choosing to build the IV/13a Medieval Germans,III/bcd Vikings and the Pre-Feudal Scots I'll also be able to scratch together armies to use as II/68b Picts & III/78 Scots Isles & Highlanders(less the 5Hd) and at a stretch III/46 Norse Irish....I have allied contingents for most the armies including Strathclyde allies(using some Lombard Spearmen and General)for the Feudal Scots.
I'm going to take a break from painting book 3 & 4 armies and start the first of two Book 1 armies I have left to paint....so today I prepped 6x3Bd elements of a Sea Peoples army...."some people want to see the world burn".😁
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Post by carll on Jun 12, 2024 23:00:35 GMT
Haardrada,
YOU have been BUSY! THANK YOU for the public link to photos of your handiwork. They look good, and arrayed as armies gives them a good 'look' too.
I like your lateral thinking on how to use your figures to create other DBA armies.
I look forward to seeing more of your armies. CarlL
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Post by Haardrada on Jun 13, 2024 0:07:07 GMT
Haardrada, YOU have been BUSY! THANK YOU for the public link to photos of your handiwork. They look good, and arrayed as armies gives them a good 'look' too. I like your lateral thinking on how to use your figures to create other DBA armies. I look forward to seeing more of your armies. CarlL Thank you Carll that's very kind of you....the grand scheme came about by chance and the luck that three armies from the same era can provide enough elements to be able to represent another four armies. Work wise that is four DBA armies and two allied contingents completed this year,but nowhere near the level of work output you are managing.I'll be happy if I can complete another four armies this year.🤞
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Post by claudermilk on Jun 13, 2024 14:39:35 GMT
I'm taking mental notes (should actually write some notes) on those combos. I've looked at the lists I've been working on to pull the same stunt.
I have II/12 & II/15 about 99% set up for all options (I have one 3Ax to build). I'm next looking at how much of the II/18 range I have out of those.
I've been looking at the II/5 range--which I have figures for three of the armies--to see how many more I can field, and how much of the II/31 and I/52 variants I can pull off.
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Post by Haardrada on Jun 13, 2024 22:32:47 GMT
I'm taking mental notes (should actually write some notes) on those combos. I've looked at the lists I've been working on to pull the same stunt. I have II/12 & II/15 about 99% set up for all options (I have one 3Ax to build). I'm next looking at how much of the II/18 range I have out of those. I've been looking at the II/5 range--which I have figures for three of the armies--to see how many more I can field, and how much of the II/31 and I/52 variants I can pull off. I have partially done what you are hoping to achieve with the II/5 armies....initially I had the Spartans and Athenians but also had enough elements to morph a II/5i Other army. I have done this kind of morphing before with the III/10 Indian lists, I started with the (b) list Rajputs and added more and more figures until I could also play the army as the (a) or (c) lists until they became full armies in their own right and added the II/42 Tamils.It didn't stop there as last year I finished the III/64 Ghaznavids which have their own Rajput allied elements.....I'm still not finished as I have the elements to complete an III/38 Arab Indian army and a full IV/36 Late Muslim Indian army still to paint hopefully this year!😆
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Post by Haardrada on Jun 13, 2024 23:15:03 GMT
I'm taking mental notes (should actually write some notes) on those combos. I've looked at the lists I've been working on to pull the same stunt. I have II/12 & II/15 about 99% set up for all options (I have one 3Ax to build). I'm next looking at how much of the II/18 range I have out of those. I've been looking at the II/5 range--which I have figures for three of the armies--to see how many more I can field, and how much of the II/31 and I/52 variants I can pull off. I have partially done what you are hoping to achieve with the II/5 armies....initially I had the Spartans and Athenians but also had enough elements to morph a II/5i Other army. I have done this kind of morphing before with the III/10 Indian lists, I started with the (b) list Rajputs and added more and more figures until I could also play the army as the (a) or (c) lists until they became full armies in their own right and added the II/42 Tamils.It didn't stop there as last year I completed the III/64 Ghaznavids which have their own Rajput allied elements.....I'm still not finished as I have the elements to complete an III/38 Arab Indian army and a full IV/36 Late Muslim Indian army still to paint hopefully this year!😆
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Post by paddy649 on Jun 14, 2024 6:56:26 GMT
I'm taking mental notes (should actually write some notes) on those combos. I've looked at the lists I've been working on to pull the same stunt. I have II/12 & II/15 about 99% set up for all options (I have one 3Ax to build). I'm next looking at how much of the II/18 range I have out of those. I've been looking at the II/5 range--which I have figures for three of the armies--to see how many more I can field, and how much of the II/31 and I/52 variants I can pull off. I have partially done what you are hoping to achieve with the II/5 armies....initially I had the Spartans and Athenians but also had enough elements to morph a II/5i Other army. I did this with the Greeks and you can build lots of army lists very quickly with relatively few elements. I think the average army needs about 20-22 elements to cover all options for an army list. However, with Greeks I think under 50 elements can generate 40+ army lists with reasonable enough historical accuracy. Obviously if you care about the exact helmet types & shield designs then you can’t achieve this sort of gearing. However, the more important figure for me was 71 elements to make any 2 historically matched Greek armies - and this all fits inside single box. Have Greeks will game!
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Post by claudermilk on Jun 14, 2024 13:57:12 GMT
Yeah, I noticed the Greeks had a ton of overlap potential. It's fortunate that my buddies already had some armies in hand that pointed me to the hoplite armies as foes. I'm holding the Spartans and Boeotians aside since they have more unique looks; otherwise it's been the Museum Miniatures figures with either bell or linen cuirass and the classic Corinthian helmet. Not 100% accurate for everyone, but you get the point it's a Greek hoplite...and they are 15mm figures. I have one more of those to paint up (Siciliots) then I'm done and pretty much burned out on painting hoplites for a while. I do have a couple of Xyston Campanian & Apulian armies in the queue (II/8bc), but they are a little different.
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Post by carll on Jun 15, 2024 20:39:23 GMT
Evening all, More of the same old big 25mm Hinchliffe cavalry lancer figures but painted up slightly differently, red-brown cloak (instead of yellow-brown of earlier ones), yellow-brown surcoat [see figure 62a in AEIR], (not red-brown of earlier) and tunic (only arms visible) in light blue (and later red) instead of off white linen. More fictional Eastern Late Roman (early Byzantine) shield patterns, inspired by those of Western Late Roman army recorded in (one or other) version of the Notitia Dignitatium. Four bases (2 units) completed fully today and another four bases painted, with 2 more primed, made up from heavily repaired figures (eg two figures needed new arms to hold lances, all horses bar two were broken from base on two or three legs so heavily cradled in milliput grass!) (See black primed cavalry lancers!) CarlL
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Post by carll on Jun 15, 2024 20:42:15 GMT
After getting this far, I realised I have no Belisarian generals to paint up!! I previously used Late Roman generals with my 25mm Belisarian infantry painted up in 1980s (mainly all old 25mm Irregular Miniatures and some Minifigs Dacians). So I bought, 3 mounted generals, 3 mounted cavalry officers and 3 mounted standard bearers (all on half armoured horses but you can ask to vary this) from Irregular Miniatures 28mm range. They are good but the standard bearer is a lancer with a draco to stick to top of his lance, which seemed unlikely to stay stuck. There are lots of variations in the same horse code (leg movement and horse tail position mainly vary) but I thought my generals should be riding something more notable especially as these old Hinchliffe horses had lots of ornamentation. So I went to my spares box: I dug out 1 draco moulded with staff and 2 vexillums moulded with staff, left over from recent Palmyrans from 28mm Armorum & Aquila purchase; added these to three very old long / tall 25mm (Lamming or maybe Hinchliffe) cataphract riders; then stuck these to three of the Irregular Mins 28mm half armoured horses that I had bought recently. Next I dug out three different old 25mm horses, (similar in size to Irregular Mins 28mm horses) for my generals; two are old Minifigs half armoured horses (probably intended for Sassanids); and one old Hinchliffe cataphract horse for the CinC so he is more distinctive (or will be when painted)! See photos of end results yet to be primed! So some way to go just on my HC and Generals! CarlL
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Post by paulisper on Jun 17, 2024 12:01:16 GMT
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Post by carll on Jun 19, 2024 18:27:09 GMT
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